Re: I canīt send keys to other applications in background with sendmessage

I canīt use SendKeys because what I need is to send the keys to an application
in background, and the SendKeys (like keybd_event function) just send the
keys to the application with the input focus.

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote:
>I have a number of suggestions but they depend really on what you need to
>do. So I'll start with the easiest answer: Use SendKeys.
>
>--
>Jonathan Wood
>SoftCircuits Programming
>http://www.softcircuits.com
>"Julian Hevia" <hevioide@att.net.mx> wrote in message
>news:3b55b18f$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Few days ago I found some examples about how I could send keys (simulate
>> keystrokes) to another application, but it is not working.
>> The problem is that this application is totally independent from my Visual
>> Basic application, and almost always this application wonīt be in the
>foreground
>> or with the input focus, so my only way to solve this is sending the keys
>> using sendmessage but it is not working.
>> Here is an example of what I am trying to do:
>>
>> Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
>> Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String,
_
>> ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
>> Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
>> Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long _
>> , ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long _
>> , lParam As Any) As Long
>>
>> Dim hWindow As Long
>> dim lngResult as Long
>> hWindow = FindWindow(vbNullString, "OC://WebConnect Pro")
>> 'here I tried to send an "A"
>> lngResult = SendMessageBynum(hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, 65, 0)
>> lngResult = SendMessageBynum(hWindow, WM_KEYUP, 65, 0)
>>
>> I really would appreciate any help or suggestion.
>>
>
>